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Monday, September 15, 2014

Microsoft Azure (IaaS) Cost Estimator Tool

Performing estimates on VM move to Azure is a challenge and some information is such bandwidth usage, transaction, etc is difficult to estimate. However, with Microsoft Azure (Iaas) Cost Estimator tool, we can easily scan VMM, Hyper-V Host, VMware or even physical server to collect information based on profiling duration and scanning frequency. It can run over a period of time and report resource consumption and align it to resources and VM sizes within Microsoft Azure.

As a consultant, we always need to do design and cost calculation and this tool come handy to assist us.

Here is an example, when we scan our environment when connecting to VMM.

Result after detected virtual machine from VMM. We can select which VM that we would like to move to Azure

Based on profiling and scanning frequency, it will give recommendation of VM spec when move to Azure

You can select different pricing model based on cost optimized, VM allocated and performance optimized. Each VM can be customize to select different VM sizing.

Cost Optimized (shown above): Calculates costs based on resources profiled during the length of the scan.

VM Allocated: Uses 100% of machines capacity (1:1 mapping of available resources or a close as it gets to an Azure VM instance) to calculate costs.

You can display costing based on Azure data center location. At this moment, the tool only cater for US datacenter. Therefore for other datacenter location, the tool still can provide good recommendation in term of resource consumption and VM sizes.

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Lai, (MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management) has more than 16 years of IT industry experience. He specializes in Hyper-V, System Center and Microsoft Azure products. Lai has actively presents Microsoft Virtualization Day, Microsoft Cloud Day, Microsoft Tech-Ed New Zealand (2011), Microsoft Techday 2011(Singapore) and local community. He actively blogs on Virtualization and System Center at
http://www.ms4u.info and is the founder of Malaysia Virtualization User Group (MVUG).
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